You yearn for a safe place, a community

by Larry Crabb

That cry from your heart is your longing to be part of a true church, to participate in spiritual community, to engage in spiritual conversations of worship with God and of co-journeying with others. You yearn for a safe place, a community of friends who are hungry for God, who know what it means to sense the Spirit moving within them as they speak with you. You long fro brothers and sisters who are intent not on figuring out how ti improve your life, but on being with you wherever your journey leads. You want to know and be known in conversations that aren’t really about you or anyone else but Christ.

~ Becoming a True Spiritual Community, p. 19